§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYTo ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the Imperial Expenditure of the United Kingdom is contributed by Ireland; and whether this proportion is greater or less than the relative taxable capacity of Ireland as determined by the Royal Commission on Financial Relations.
(Answered by Mr. Ritchie.) In the financial year 1901–2 (the last for which figures are available) the contribution from Irish Revenue towards Imperial Expenditure was 2.54 per cent. of the total amount so contributed by the United Kingdom. In other words, Ireland's contribution was about one thirty-eighth of that of Great Britain The Financial Relations Commission estimated Ireland's taxable capacity as not exceeding one-twentieth of that of Great Britain.